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Quiz about F1 Seasons 1957
Quiz about F1 Seasons 1957

F1 Seasons: 1957 Trivia Quiz


Another quiz on F1 seasons. Drive through the 1957 World Championship!

A multiple-choice quiz by Caeiro. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
Caeiro
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
359,558
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which driver won his fifth World Championship in 1957? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What car did the 1957 World Champion drive? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Vanwall's first win came in the British GP, courtesy of Stirling Moss. But Moss retired early in the race and only won after taking over a teammate's car. Who shared this win with Moss? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. A British driver won his first pole position in the 1957 Italian GP. Who was this Vanwall driver? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Sam Hanks won the Indianapolis 500 and Pat O'Connor had pole, but who got the fastest lap? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Stuart Lewis-Evans impressed in his first GP season, but another rookie finished in front of him in the World Championship. Who was this U.S. driver, third in his very first GP, in Monaco? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. BRM (British Racing Motors) had a works team in 1957, but results were hard to find. What engine was the team using? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. One of Ferrari's lead drivers was killed in a private test early in the season. Who was this Italian rising star? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Bruce Halford, in his private Maserati, was the eleventh and final placed driver in the 1957 German GP. Or was he? Some sources claim Edgar Barth (Porsche), Brian Naylor (private Cooper-Climax), Carel Godin de Beaufort (Maarsbergen entered Porsche) and Tony Marsh (Ridgeway entered Cooper-Climax) finished after Halford. Why aren't they considered in some records? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. The 1957 German GP was Juan Manuel Fangio's last win in Formula One and it couldn't have been better. He recovered from a failed pit stop that put him almost a minute behind the leaders, beating the fastest lap record several times to pass Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn before the end of the race. What did he say in reaction to that amazing win? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which driver won his fifth World Championship in 1957?

Answer: Juan Manuel Fangio

1957 was Fangio's last World Championship. He won it with a 15 point advantage over Moss. Musso was third, 24 points back, and Hawthorn finished fourth, 27 points adrift.
2. What car did the 1957 World Champion drive?

Answer: Maserati

Fangio left Ferrari after only a season and returned to Maserati. Having lost Fangio, Ferrari's best placed driver was Luigi Musso, third in the Championship table.

Vanwall's lead driver was Stirling Moss, second in the Championship, while Connaught scored a fourth place in their last Grand Prix (in Monaco), by Stuart Lewis-Evans, who then moved to Vanwall.
3. Vanwall's first win came in the British GP, courtesy of Stirling Moss. But Moss retired early in the race and only won after taking over a teammate's car. Who shared this win with Moss?

Answer: Tony Brooks

Brooks was running second behind Jean Behra's Maserati when he was called into the pits to hand over his car to his team leader Moss (who was leading before he retired). Moss would also win in the Pescara GP and the Italian GP. The other wins went to Juan Manuel Fangio (in Argentina, Monaco, France and Germany) and Sam Hanks, who, in an Epperly-Offenhauser, entered by George Salih, won the Indianapolis 500.

Salvadori and Lewis-Evans were Vanwall's other drivers, although Salvadori also drove for BRM and Cooper in this season, while Lewis-Evans drove for Connaught before moving to Vanwall. In 1957, Hawthorn was driving for Ferrari.
4. A British driver won his first pole position in the 1957 Italian GP. Who was this Vanwall driver?

Answer: Stuart Lewis-Evans

Lewis-Evans had pole for the last Grand Prix of the season. Brooks and Salvadori had no poles in 1957 and Moss had 2, but they were not his first poles.

World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio had 4 poles in 1957, while Pat O'Connor, in Chapman S. Root's Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser, started the Indy 500 from the front of the grid.
5. Sam Hanks won the Indianapolis 500 and Pat O'Connor had pole, but who got the fastest lap?

Answer: Jim Rathmann

Jim Rathmann, driving an Epperly-Offenhauser, entered by Lindsey Hopkins, finished second, but secured the Indy 500 fastest lap. Hanks won, O'Connor finished eighth and Bryan was third. The other fastest laps went to Stirling Moss (3), Juan Manuel Fangio (2), Luigi Musso and Tony Brooks (1 each).
6. Stuart Lewis-Evans impressed in his first GP season, but another rookie finished in front of him in the World Championship. Who was this U.S. driver, third in his very first GP, in Monaco?

Answer: Masten Gregory

Gregory, driving a Maserati for Scuderia Centro Sud, had a third and 2 fourth places on his way to sixth in the table (six places ahead of Lewis-Evans). Brooks (a British driver) and Schell were not rookies, just like Russo, who only drove F1 races in Indianapolis.
7. BRM (British Racing Motors) had a works team in 1957, but results were hard to find. What engine was the team using?

Answer: BRM

BRM copied most other works teams (like Vanwall) in using their own engines. Climax made engines for the Cooper cars, while Alta engines equipped the Connaughts.
8. One of Ferrari's lead drivers was killed in a private test early in the season. Who was this Italian rising star?

Answer: Eugenio Castellotti

Castellotti became one of Ferrari's main contenders after Juan Manuel Fangio left for Maserati. He died in a test at Modena Aeroautodromo, after he was thrown out of his car when it hit a concrete stand. Musso and Perdisa were two of his teammates, as De Portago (a Spanish driver) who died less than two months after Castellotti, in the Mille Miglia. De Portago's accident led to the end of that legendary race, since it killed him, his co-driver and 11 spectators.
9. Bruce Halford, in his private Maserati, was the eleventh and final placed driver in the 1957 German GP. Or was he? Some sources claim Edgar Barth (Porsche), Brian Naylor (private Cooper-Climax), Carel Godin de Beaufort (Maarsbergen entered Porsche) and Tony Marsh (Ridgeway entered Cooper-Climax) finished after Halford. Why aren't they considered in some records?

Answer: They were racing Formula 2 cars, that weren't eligible for Championship points

Barth, Naylor, Beaufort, Marsh and five other drivers started the race in F2 cars, to boost the grid numbers (there were only 15 Formula One cars). The races were separate, though, and drivers in F2 cars couldn't score World Championship points, even if they were sharing the track witk F1 drivers at the same time.
10. The 1957 German GP was Juan Manuel Fangio's last win in Formula One and it couldn't have been better. He recovered from a failed pit stop that put him almost a minute behind the leaders, beating the fastest lap record several times to pass Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn before the end of the race. What did he say in reaction to that amazing win?

Answer: I have never driven that quickly before in my life and I don't think I will ever be able to do it again

Fangio kept his cool during the botched pit stop, calmly drinking water while his team scrambled to get him out on the track. His win is considered one of the best drives ever and he really couldn't expect to repeat it in the future, since he was already 46 at the time.
Source: Author Caeiro

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